Steve Austin has over 20 years of experience training, competing and teaching martial arts. He talks about overcoming a childhood disease, dealing with bullying as a kid and why it’s important to reach kids who are bullies as well as their victims. Click “read more” for show notes! SHOW NOTES:
- Origins
- Overcoming a childhood hip disease
- How bullying led him to martial arts
- Theory-based martial arts
- His process of accepting new youth students
- Explaining Jiu-Jitsu to parents
- Life lessons from bullying
- Taking bullies in as students
- Verbal Jiu-Jitsu
- Jiu-Jitsu as therapy
- Self defense Jiu-Jitsu
- His MMA experience
- The Pummel
- The birth and growth of his school
- How not having an affiliation has affected his school and his own journey
- Future goals